Tulia

Performance and dramaturgy

Paula Ardila

Outer eye

Carla Vellio

Costumes

Ana Cecilia Falivene

Duration

45 minutes

At ten o'clock that evening, the order to abandon came with violence. The fog obscured everything. With shouts and machetes, she was forced to leave her home. From the mountains, dogs descended, barking angrily, their lights piercing the fog, surrounding her.
Resistance was forbidden. He heard the sound of running boots and the clang of hungry weapons. Silence.
In those days there had been a whisper in the mountains: “They will do us all in.”
Tulia's arms were open, her hands clutching the earth: as she trembled, the earth trembled. When she released her hands, the earth continued to tremble, shaken by the cries of those who would be dispossessed again and again.
And then Tulia understood.